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More than 200,000 dollars for Bonnie and Clyde's weapons
Jan 21, 2012, 20:06 GMT
Kansas City - Eight decades after their nationwide flurry of robberies, weapons believed to have belonged to the infamous US outlaws Bonnie and Clyde were auctioned off Saturday for more than 200,000 dollars.
A shotgun went for 80,000 dollars (62,000 euros), according to Kansas City-based Mayo Auction and Realty, which sold off the historical items. A Tommy Gun was sold for 130,000 dollars - both went to an anonymous online bidder on the US East Coast.
According to the auction house website, the weapons were seized after a raid in the city of Joplin, Missouri in April 1933 and handed over to police. The seller is the great grandson of one of the officers.
Months before the raid, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow kidnapped a police officer named Thomas Persell, who recounted the events of his abduction for the Springfield Daily News, mentioning a 'Tommy Gun' that he said Parker held.
The couple were shot dead by police in 1934.
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